Cooking for one in a kitchen with no equipment

What surprised me was how much support was available once I actually asked. I had spent a year assuming there was none.

I found that being organised was the substitute for being able to throw money at problems, and it worked most of the time.

No wisdom, just: I am sorry. That sounds genuinely hard.

My experience is that this is doable on very little and that it requires more planning than anybody with money would need.

The holidays are the difficult part. Term-time arrangements do not survive four months at a different address.

Hettie said something I want to sit with for a second.

The bit nobody mentions is how much of this assumes you can take a phone call during working hours. I could not, for a year.

Something practical: everything I need fits in one small bag, deliberately, because I have moved four times since starting.

Doing this without money is a completely different exercise and most of what is written assumes a car, a fridge and a stable address.

No advice, only that you are not the only one who found this part hard.

The address problem was mine. Moving three times in two years meant every arrangement had to be rebuilt each time.

I asked the university health service and they were far more helpful than I had assumed they would be. Worth trying before assuming.

The fridge in a shared house was a genuine problem and I solved it with a small locked box and a conversation with my housemates.

My budget for this is fixed and small and I plan the whole year around it rather than month to month.

I found the cost conversation with my prescriber embarrassing and it produced a practical alternative I had not known about.

Adding a name to the list of people this helped.

The travel to appointments was more of a barrier than the appointments. I moved to phone reviews and it solved it.